Chapter 2 The external environment: Opportunities‚ threats‚ industry competition and competitor analysis Knowledge objectives 1 Explain the importance of analysing and understanding the firm’s external environment 2 Define and describe the general environment and the industry environment 3 Discuss the four activities of the external environmental analysis process 4 Name and describe the general environment’s six segments Knowledge objectives 5 Identify the five competitive forces
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CHAPTER 1 Business Environment Contents • Introduction • Business • Objectives of business • Environmental influences on business • Environmental analysis • Characteristics of business environment • Components of business environment • The micro and macro environment • Competitive environment • Porter’s five forces model–competitive analysis Learning Objectives The present chapter aims at: • Definitions and objective of business • Examine environment analysis‚ characteristics
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The Aetas and the Environment The Aeta is a group of indigenous people who live in scattered‚ isolated mountainous parts of Luzon. The Aeta predecessors are nomadic and build only temporary shelters. However‚ the well-situated and more modernized Aeta have moved to villages and areas of cleared mountains. One of the areas that the Aeta has inhabited for thousands of years is the area of Mt. Pinatubo. When Mt. Pinatubo erupted‚ the Aetas lost their home. They were forced to live in evacuation
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Introduction Business environment is the combination of internal and external factors that influence a company ’s operating situation. The business environment can include factors such as clients and suppliers‚ its competition and owners‚ improvements in technology‚ laws and government activities and market‚ social and economic trends. Environmental forces of political‚ economic‚ social‚ and technological factors. These factors are outside the control of the business. The business can’t do much
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Consumerism and the Effect on the Environment Tammi Bradbury Consumerism and the Effect on the Environment Consumerism is a concept that was created before the Great Depression‚ which‚ by definition‚ means “the concept that an ever-expanding consumption of goods is advantageous to the economy; the fact or practice of an increasing consumption of goods”. In other words‚ consumerism has meant the transformation of citizens into shoppers. In fact‚ after the tragedy of 9/11‚ we were not asked
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Chapter 6: marketing Marketing Marketing is the process of developing a product and implementing a series of strategies aimed at correctly promoting‚ pricing and distributing the product to a core group of customers. The purpose of this is to determine what the business should be producing. Marketing is used primarily by a business as a method of enhancing its revenue streams and increasing the market’s awareness of its products. The strategic role of marketing The strategic role of marketing extends
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The marketing environment surrounds and impacts upon the organization. There are three key elements to the marketing environment which are the internal environment‚ the microenvironment and the macroenvironment. Why are they important? Well marketers build both internal and external relationships. Marketers aim to deliver value to satisfied customers‚ so we need to assess and evaluate our internal business/corporate environment and our external environment which is subdivided into micro and macro
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every team to make them successful or non-successful? There is a coaching environment which exists for all teams which either facilitates the athlete’s progression in the sport or could possible scare them from the team. It is the people involved directly with the team that creates this coaching environment. Who precisely is involved here shall be discussed as well as the influence sport scientists may have on this environment‚ whether it is a hindrance or have a beneficial impact. Discussion Whilst
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Robert Gray‚ Arthur Miller and Rachel Carson are writers that each explores the 20th century interaction and relationship between humans and their environment. From their texts ’The meatworks’‚ ’North Coast Town’‚ ’Death of a Salesman’ and ’Silent Spring’ we learn of conflict between man and his environment-which can be everything from man’s surrounding area‚ conditions and influences. And this conflict harms both man and nature causing degradation‚ exploitation and destruction for nature whilst
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THE CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT The article focuses on classroom environment and its characteristics. The environment in the class influences how teachers and students feel and behave. What is more‚ its qualities can have a lasting effect on our lives. The teacher’s challenge is to make the classroom environment functional‚ thoughtful‚ enjoyable and literate. However‚ there are things in real life that make it difficult for teacher to create specific classroom environment. Among these we can find‚ for
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